Question follow-through · 46308
Social Media: Standards
To ask the Secretary of State for Science, Innovation and Technology, what plans his Department has to prevent social media companies from removing provenance metadata from content posted online.
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- Answering body
- Department for Science, Innovation and Technology
- Tabled
- 17 Apr 2025
- Target answer date
- 23 Apr 2025
- Answer
- 29 Apr 2025 · 12 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
17 Apr 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Science, Innovation and Technology, what plans his Department has to prevent social media companies from removing provenance metadata from content posted online.
23 Apr 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
29 Apr 2025
Answer published
The Department for Science, Innovation and Technology is working with other government departments and agencies to explore the efficacy of technologies that seek to use provenance and metadata to improve the transparency of AI-generated and modified conte...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
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